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Development and Validation of the Brief Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being in School Scale (BASWBSS)

Authors: Lili Tian, Dushen Wang, E. Scott Huebner

Published in: Social Indicators Research | Issue 2/2015

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Adolescents report differing subjective experiences across various life domains necessitating the development of domain-specific measures of subjective well-being. This study aimed to develop a brief, specialized, comprehensive measure of adolescents’ subjective well-being (SWB) in school and assess its psychometric properties in Chinese adolescents. Toward this aim, we first developed eight items for the Brief Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being in School Scale (BASWBSS) based on the theoretical frame of SWB in school proposed by Tian in the measurement model for her Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being in School Scale (ASWBSS; Tian in Psychol Dev Edu 24(3):100–106, 2008). Second, we conducted exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to investigate the structure of the BASWBSS. Third, we tested its measurement invariance across gender using multigroup analyses. Last, we examined its internal consistency reliability, convergent and discriminant validity, test–retest reliability, and predictive validity. The results revealed that the BASWBSS has promising psychometric properties. Overall, the findings offered preliminary support for the BASWBSS as a useful alternative to the longer ASWBSS, especially for studies with adolescents when brevity is an important consideration.

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Title: Development and Validation of the Brief Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being in School Scale (BASWBSS)
Authors: Lili Tian
Dushen Wang
E. Scott Huebner
Publication date: 01-01-2015
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Social Indicators Research / Issue 2/2015
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-014-0603-0

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